No More Sexy Red Sox Fan For You!

A unique story for sure. Japanese fan-art site Pixiv has issued a statement that it will ban all sexual fan-art of the character 'Ellen Baker', the popular character from the New Horizon English Book series, out of respect to character designer Denchubo, and to assure she will appear in future New Horizons books.

 

New Horizons is an educational book series for Japanese Middle Schoolers on how to learn English. The recent edition features the character Ellen Baker as a 20-year old Assistant Language Teacher from Boston. Ever since her design was revealed, her popularity skyrocketed within social media, that numerous fan-arts, memes, and even theme songs of her were made within a few days. However, artist Denchubo, who created the characters, were concerned that the many sexualized fan-arts of Ellen Baker would cause the character, and the design of the characters overall, to be pulled from future publications out of complaints from parents and the like.